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Open Mike Night(continued from page 6)
J.T.:
Oh! Alrightalrightalright!!!
R.F.:.Only because it would embarras her. So there were all my friends and these were people I felt, it's like the Frank Sinatra song, "If I can make it there, I
can do it anywhere". It was either sink or swim here and I did and the reaction of the people just sealed my fate.
J.T.: Did you feel that way going in? That there was something on the line
here?
R.F.:Lemmee just say, I heard rocky music in my head
J.T.: What do you mean Rocky Music
R.F.:
From the movie "Rocky"... running up the steps and the music's playing and he makes a conscious descision to go for - that he's going to go for broke.
J.T.:
So the way you started this is that you were coming to the open mike, and then someone asked you to host, or someone else bailed, or what happened there?
R.F.:
I'm sort of a regular here at Bar A...
J.T.:
I figured that out! [being we're sitting in a private room with a lit fireplace, a pink linen cloth and a floral arrangement on it...OK., it's a plastic floral arrangement, but still...]
R.F.:
...and when your a regular. it's kinda like a family. I'm very comfortable and I know everybody and one of the managers came up, knowing that I know a little bit about stage and stuff and asked if I would go up and help Lorrie [Tomlinson who was running the open mike at the time]. So I was helping her and playing guitar... and then Mike Scrivani was running it for a while...
J.T.: Oh yeah, I know Mike
R.F.: Yeah, he moved to Nevada
J.T.: Yeah!
R.F.: I don't know if he drove that car out there...
J.T.:
I know what your talking about...
R.F.: ...and then Mike was leaving and they approached me and they said "Hey, would you be interested?" and I took a chance ...
J.T.:
And you're glad you did?
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